May 5 Monday – Sam wrote from Hartford to Orion and Mollie Clemens.

Dear Sister & Bro:

Your letters received today—am very glad indeed for the news they brought. We finished revamping & refining the book tonight—ten days’ labor. It is near midnight & we are just through.

I like Orion’s editorials. I like their gentlemanly dignity & refinement as much as their other virtues. The English papers will soon stop I fear—I subscribed till May 1st. Will subscribe for one for Orion when I get to London if I don’t forget it.

Am very sorry to hear Ma is sick. Livy is down. In Elmira. Quinzy. Very bad attack of it. Just heard it to-day. The baby is well.

Good-bye
Lovingly

Sam [MTL 5: 362 & notes].

Note: letters from Orion and Mollie not extant; notes of source: “Orion’s presumably reported on his position with the newly established Rutland (Vt.) Globe, which he had agreed to edit from its first issue, published on 1 May.”